[Zope3-dev] Zope3 vs CVS Python

[Shane Hathaway]

Tom Deprez wrote:
> Just hopping in,
> you can ignore this message if you want :-) :
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>Ok, I'll check it in soon.  GCC on Windows lets us give an answer to
>>all the folks on the mailing lists who want to use Zope source
>>releases and Zope CVS without buying and learning MSVC.
> 
> 
> 
> Great! This would be really nice.
> Another option would have been the free borland C++ compiler (I still
> don't know why people favorite MSVC) :
> http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilder.html

Good point.  In fact, it looks like distutils supports it.  If you have 
a Zope 3 checkout and Python 2.2.1 or Python CVS, cd to your Zope 3 root 
and see if this works:

python stupid_build.py build_ext -i -c bcpp

Shane